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cimoreneHa... ha.
Also I keep meeting people who have no way to know if they have recently had the plague or a cold because antibody tests aren't reliable and when you're vaccinated it's perfectly possible to have really mild symptoms, and the health centers won't give you a proper test unless you're, like, hospital-admission sick, or working in healthcare. If your job requires them you can get them through your work-provided healthcare, apparently, but otherwise, you just have to guess.
So one of the guys at the Turku office had a PROBABLY cold but he has to not go to some kind of conference event just in case?? and one of our board members had no other symptoms but a mild sore throat for a couple days, but then he lost his sense of smell again so ... some kind of reaction image here. Yay. Basically, everybody has been exposed to someone who is infected if they're going out in public regularly, I guess, because that makes 1 maybe and 1 probably just for my interactions and I typically meet like... max 3 people per day, 5 days a week.
Also the board member I see the most often gave the whole board a speech last week, to my absolute (sarcastic) delight, about how surgical masks provide comparatively very little protection to the wearer (true) and are supposed to work by protecting other people FROM the wearer (true) and hence are only really effective if everyone around you is wearing them in a crowd because you don't know who might be affected (true) so therefore you're just wasting your time if you're the only one in the place wearing one (...) and that's why she tells everyone to only wear one if you have cold or allergy symptoms (😒😒). Another board member joined me in arguing that it also serves the purpose of demonstrating support for the concept of mask wearing, in reference to the fact that it feels socially really weird to be the only one wearing one etc. But then a bunch of people murmured "Mmm," and the subject got changed.
I know the reason commuter buses are full is that people have to work and study in the big city, but I'm still really annoyed by rush hour crowds. WHY are all these CHILDREN and TEENAGERS and YOUNG ADULTS and EXTRA PEOPLE making the bus stop at every stop and giggling and filling up all the seats. Ugh. Also, why aren't P3/N95s better at filtering out people's perfume?
Also I keep meeting people who have no way to know if they have recently had the plague or a cold because antibody tests aren't reliable and when you're vaccinated it's perfectly possible to have really mild symptoms, and the health centers won't give you a proper test unless you're, like, hospital-admission sick, or working in healthcare. If your job requires them you can get them through your work-provided healthcare, apparently, but otherwise, you just have to guess.
So one of the guys at the Turku office had a PROBABLY cold but he has to not go to some kind of conference event just in case?? and one of our board members had no other symptoms but a mild sore throat for a couple days, but then he lost his sense of smell again so ... some kind of reaction image here. Yay. Basically, everybody has been exposed to someone who is infected if they're going out in public regularly, I guess, because that makes 1 maybe and 1 probably just for my interactions and I typically meet like... max 3 people per day, 5 days a week.
Also the board member I see the most often gave the whole board a speech last week, to my absolute (sarcastic) delight, about how surgical masks provide comparatively very little protection to the wearer (true) and are supposed to work by protecting other people FROM the wearer (true) and hence are only really effective if everyone around you is wearing them in a crowd because you don't know who might be affected (true) so therefore you're just wasting your time if you're the only one in the place wearing one (...) and that's why she tells everyone to only wear one if you have cold or allergy symptoms (😒😒). Another board member joined me in arguing that it also serves the purpose of demonstrating support for the concept of mask wearing, in reference to the fact that it feels socially really weird to be the only one wearing one etc. But then a bunch of people murmured "Mmm," and the subject got changed.
I know the reason commuter buses are full is that people have to work and study in the big city, but I'm still really annoyed by rush hour crowds. WHY are all these CHILDREN and TEENAGERS and YOUNG ADULTS and EXTRA PEOPLE making the bus stop at every stop and giggling and filling up all the seats. Ugh. Also, why aren't P3/N95s better at filtering out people's perfume?
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Date: 5 Oct 2022 04:33 pm (UTC)yeah I've like given up on going anywhere. Going to the store is always fucking nerve-wracking, especially since a lot of stores don't have masks for sale by the door anymore and it makes me want to weep when I forget mine.
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Date: 5 Oct 2022 07:40 pm (UTC)I don't wear one at work, because I'm alone most of the time and when I'm not the people density and proximity is very low. But I can't really think of any other indoor public places that seem low risk in daytime. Buses are a NIGHTMARE. Imagine being immune compromised and not having a car! There are plenty of people like that. They just can't leave the house at all I guess?!
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Date: 6 Oct 2022 06:20 am (UTC)I mean yeah. I'm like very mildly disabled and the shit people say to my face just b/c I'm capable of working communicates exactly that.
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Date: 6 Oct 2022 06:59 am (UTC)And it's. so stupid, because healthy vaccinated working age people are STILL among the ones getting hospitalized and dying, it's just not as many of them as before. But still more than influenza gets, I think. And the news and the government pages have basically stopped treating it as news. Arhgggggh.
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Date: 5 Oct 2022 06:52 pm (UTC)